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wanting a particular Patron, commeth as it were a begging unto thee, for no lesse than thy whole aelfe, and that cheeflie for thine o\vne good, the way to protect it, is to direct thy life by it, and to sufter it to possesse thee, as soon as thou hast possest it : which if thou be so happie to accom- plish, it will teach thee to \yinne love by feare : life by death : yea, everlasting happines by the transitory troubles of this wretched world : and to give it just praise in a word, it is a worke of the learned and spiritual Granada, aptly translated into English."

Then follow three verses under three separate headings, each occupying one page. I presume these are Lodge's own composi- tion, and as they are only short, I give them :

Lamentations. Let dread of paine

for sin in after time Let shame to see

thy selfe ensnared so, Let griefe conceaved

for foule accursed crime, Let hate of sinne

the worker of thy woe With dread, with shame,

With griefe, with hate enforce To dew the cheekea

With tears of deep remorse.

Carmen. 80 hate of sinne

shall make Gods love to grow, (So greefe shall harbour

hope within thy hart, So dread shall cause

the flood of joy to flow, 80 shame shall send

sweete solace to thy smart : So love, so hope,

so joy, so solace sweet, Shall make thy soule

In heavenly bliss to fleete.

Fee. Woe were no hate

doth no such love allure Wo where such griefe

makes no such hope proceed, Wo where such dread

dotli no such joy procure, Wo where such shame

doth no such solace breed. Woe where no hate,

no griefe, no dread, no shame, No love, no hope,

no joy, no solace frame. Non tardes converti ad Deum. The size of the page is only 4f in. by 2|in. ; the book has 273 pages, numbered alternately in "folios," having 136 Polios in all. The printed type is very clear and good.

The work consists of twenty-three chapters, each prefaced with an 'Argument'; and at the end of many of the chapters the trans- lator gives the reference to the particular place in the original from which the

preceding chapter is taken, most of them being from a book entitled 'Guide of a Sinner.'

The original author, Luis or Lodowicke of Granada, was a Spanish Dominican, who lived 1508-88. He founded a monastery at Badajoz. His * Guida de Pecadores' was published in 1570.

My book contains the book-plate of the "Pengwern" Library, and is bound in the original calf, in fairly good preservation.

I shall be glad to know if any of your readers have come across a copy of this curious and apparently forgotten work.

A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

STERNE'S LETTERS TO JOHN BLAKE. Prof. Cross, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn^ having in preparation a new life of Laurence Sterne, is anxious to obtain information re- garding the original correspondence between Sterne and the Rev. John Blake, York. The letters were sold at York about 1864, but ifc is not known by whom they were purchased. Information of any other original letters of Sterne or relating to him would be gratefully received. Communications may be ad- dressed to Miss HASTINGS.

60, Brecknock Road, N.

FRENCH DICTIONARY FOR THE BLIND. I desire particulars of a small but trustworthy English - French and French - English dic- tionary, suitable for transcription into the Braille type for the use of the blind. Braille books are very bulky, and their production is costly, so that it would be imperative to select for the purpose a work which is both concise and trustworthy, but which contains all the important root - words of both languages. I should be most grateful for any information sent to me direct.

W. PERCY MERRICK.

Elvetham, Shepperton.

COLLOP MONDAY, &c. Will some reader of 'N. & Q.,' learned in folk-lore, kindly ex- plain the following terms ? Collop Monday, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Bloody Thursday, Nippylug Friday, and Button- Hole Sunday. These terms were all in frequent use in this part of England thirty or forty years ago. Men who are not old can remem-